EdTech
Education Technology is a multi-billion dollar sector of companies innovating in both software and hardware for teaching, learning, and running schools, districts, and state and federal education departments. We document some of the most essential technical innovations and companies that support learning, teaching and more.
Vying for Seven State Super Slots November 2
Is ed reform tearing the Democratic Party asunder; seven state super slots up for grabs this November 2; DOE soliciting for opinions; value added teachers in New York; Rhode Island braces for budgeting cutbacks
Newark Struggles in Graduation and College Achievement
According to outgoing Newark Superintendent Clifford Janey, "Only slightly more than half (52 percent) of our students graduate high school within four years, based on the new, more accurate graduation rate adopted by National Governors Association." See a report inside that details statistics about Newark's school and student achievement.
Maximizing Potential of All Students
Are KIPP Schools really "drill and kill" factories that drive students to exhaustion. Not really, despite contentions that this is what makes some of them so successful. Here is a column from Jay Matthews, via an email from Whitney Tilson, philanthropist and ed reformer.
Advancing a Global Learning Agenda
Arne Duncan is saying that educational advances in other countries do not necessarily equate to an American loss at home, or abroad. Rather, advances and innovations are win-win solutions for an entire global architecture. The Digital Learning Council has a sense of this kind of change coming, and is working hard to help states advance a roadmap to get there.
Content Filtering in a Digital Age
Perhaps because it is taking an intellectual and analytical examination of policy, a recent article fails to mention that there are LMSs on the market now that address privacy and content concerns for students, and they do so in such a way that they give a lot of control and leverage to the teacher, who can choose exactly what and how he or she wants the kids to interact online.
Moving From En Masse Learning to One-to-One
A missive from one of the many learning professionals out there reminds us that New York State is at least one state in the union that is moving from looking at learners and students as a massive group to individuals that have unique problem sets and needs.
Drafting Online Laws at the OK Corral
Legislators in Oklahoma are cobbling together language for a new bill on virtual schooling. They seem to be leaving out statewide virtual charter opportunities, and it looks like the bulk of the bill is meant to keep control, funding, and power in the hands of districts, keeping parents from seeking out great virtual education for their students from anywhere other than where they are physically located.
Virtual School Symposium for Online & Blended Learning
Online learning is growing at an astonishing 30% rate annually in the United States in K-12 education. Register for the iNACOL Virtual School Symposium Online & Blended Learning Conference
Boeing: Next Gen Online Learning Works Better
Boeing piloting and researching web 2 learning components--no surprise, engaging user driven learning works better.
Where Games and Simulations are Leading Education
As the planning beings for LEEF 2011 (June 16-17), it’s amazing to think how much games, simulations and virtual worlds for learning have matured over the past two years. And yet, th